7 Movies Starring Vanessa Paradis

Noce blanche

Noce blanche

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-11-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1393 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

A teacher of philosophy discovers a complicated pupil, a seventeen years old girl with a quite cynic and lucid view of the world. He gets involved in helping her to follow the routine of the study, but soon he is fascinated by her and they fall in a passionate love. When the teacher confronts their affair with reality he decides staying with her wife. But the girl will not accept it.

èlisa

èlisa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-02-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1594 Reviews)

Director:

Jean Becker

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

The Girl on the Bridge

The Girl on the Bridge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-03-31

Languages:

French, Italian, Greek

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (10362 Reviews)

Director:

Patrice Leconte

Cast:

Writer:

Serge Frydman (dialogue)

Serge Frydman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform and in the process win a big fortune through gambling. Although both of them continue a platonic relationship, the sex-starved girl attempts to sleep with handsome guys she encounters throughout the journey. Finally, Adele falls in love with a newly-wed groom and both of them elope to Greece, while Gabor is stuck in Turkey. Then Adele is dumped by the groom. Only by now both Gabor and Adele realize that luck isn't with them unless they get together again. But both of them are so broke that they can't even feed themselves, let alone getting back to Paris and reunite...

A Monster in Paris

A Monster in Paris

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-10-12

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (14634 Reviews)

Director:

Bibo Bergeron

Cast:

Writer:

Bibo Bergeron

Stèphane Kazandjian (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Paris,1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. They join forces with Lucille, the big-hearted star of the Rare Bird cabaret, an eccentric scientist and his irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be an oversized but harmless flea, from the city's ruthlessly ambitious police chief.

Heartbreaker

Heartbreaker

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-17

Languages:

French, English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Mandarin

Countries:

France, Monaco

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (19641 Reviews)

Director:

Pascal Chaumeil

Cast:

Writer:

Laurent Zeitoun (scenario)

Jeremy Doner (scenario)

Yoann Gromb (scenario)

Laurent Zeitoun (original idea)

Fullplot:

You could say Alex Lippi is a ladies' man but it is not true. Of course he has already wooed and charmed armies of women, young and less young, French and foreign. But Alex does it only on active service. Indeed he is appointed to break up undesired couplings. This time he must prevent a rich young lady from marrying an English millionaire. The girl is beautiful and the future husband a perfect match. Will he manage to accomplish this difficult mission?

Cafè de Flore

Cafè de Flore

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-11-18

Languages:

French

Countries:

Canada, France

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (9663 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

A love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal. What binds the two stories together is love - euphoric, obsessive, tragic, youthful, timeless love. In 1960s Paris, a working class woman gives birth to her first child, Laurent - a Down Syndrome son. Undaunted she embraces the challenge of raising her beloved offspring as normally as one would any other child. Her husband abandons them both. She bravely brushes this additional hiccup aside as Laurent replaces her spouse as the perfect man of her dreams. As Laurent approaches school age Jacqueline's aplomb becomes obsessive and cloying. Her increasingly self-destructive attachment to her son is raised to a fever pitch when, at the age of seven, he meets a Down Syndrome girl (Vèronique) and experiences his first crush. His sudden desire for independence, and his attraction to Vèra, are the catalysts that transform Jacqueline from a loving mother into something resembling a lover scorned. What emerges is a love triangle of potentially tragic proportions. In 21st century Montreal, a forty year old divorcèe, Carole, is trying to restart her life after her divorce, two years earlier, from Antoine, a devastatingly handsome, successful touring DJ. Soul mates who've been a couple since the age of fifteen, their divorce is a schism that might prove impossible for either of them to put in the past. Making the transition even more difficult for Carole is the fact that her two daughters, one teen, one tween, are about to gain a stepmother, a stunningly beautiful, heartbreaking blonde, a woman about to "steal" away the perfect man of her dreams. The young girls are being cruelly pulled in two different directions, Antoine's father, a recovering alcoholic, seems to side with his ex-daughter-in-law, and Carole is succumbing to fits of depression and potentially dangerous bouts of sleepwalking. What emerges is a love triangle of potentially tragic proportions.

Fading Gigolo

Fading Gigolo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-04-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (17003 Reviews)

Director:

John Turturro

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Murray, the bankrupt owner of a bookstore, is forced to close his family business. His dermatologist, Dr. Parker, dreams of having a threesome and would pay a thousand dollars to have one with her friend Selima. Murray then proposes to his friend Fioravante that they start a male prostitution business, with Murray acting as the pimp. However, when Fioravante meets a Hasidic Jewish woman, Avigal, who is the widow of a rabbi, they fall in love with each other. But a Jewish neighborhood patrolman, Dovi, is in love with Avigal too, and might make life difficult for Fioravante and Murray.

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